That is good advice.
I think maybe I was spoiling him with treats and he stopped eating his food because he wanted the other food instead...
So if he wants the other food, it's good, healthy chinchilla food and although it's a little harder for me to get it's worth it if it makes him happy. The big news is he's eating again!
I saw him do it, twice. The new food, he won't touch the old food, but perhaps that will change. I spoke to the vets she advised me to just feed him less of the recovery food so he would feel hungry and eat and it seemed to work.
I'm just happy he's eating. He's having another checkup at the end of the week and another weight check to make sure he really is okay.
So here's what helped him eat again:
Trip to the vets for weight check, teeth check and tummy check.
Was given gut stimulant, pain killers (in case it was his teeth) and fluids.
She gave me more of the gut stimulant to give him 0.05ml each morning and night and some recovery liquid food to syringe feed him.
I gave him the meds and as much of the recovery food as I could (2ml). I also gave him 1ml of the baby food which was oats, banana and apple.
The next day he had the same in the morning but I halved it in the evening.
I counted out twenty pices of food into his bowl so I would know if he had eaten any and at all times he had two types of fresh hay.
The next day he had eaten some food.
I gave him 1ml of the recovery, his meds and no baby food. In the evening, this evening, I saw him eating again. Woot! I'm so happy.
I still don't know what it was, perhaps it was just the move but I will be keeping a very close eye on him from now on and just keep my fingers crossed that he's okay.